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“Youth hasn’t got anything to do with chronological age. It’s times of hope and happiness.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefore, it is an offering I may make to God. Therefore, it is to be done gladly, if it is done for Him. Here, not somewhere else, I may learn God’s way. In this job, not in some other, God looks for faithfulness.”
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“All of Jesus’ teaching on prayer in the Gospels can be summarized with one word: ask.”
― A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
― A Praying Life: Connecting with God in a Distracting World
“Keep it simple' wasn't always the right response. Many things that boosted my happiness also added complexity to my life. Having children. Learning to post videos to my website. Going to an out-of-town wedding. Applied too broadly, my impulse to 'Keep it simple' would impoverish me. 'Life is barren enough surely with all her trappings,' warned Samuel Johnson, 'let us therefore by cautious how we strip her.”
― Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
― Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon Self-Control, and My Other Experiments in Everyday Life
“And, in this staunch little portrait, it’s hard not to see the human in the finch. Dignified, vulnerable. One prisoner looking at another. But who knows what Fabritius intended? There’s not enough of his work left to even make a guess. The bird looks out at us. It’s not idealized or humanized. It’s very much a bird. Watchful, resigned. There’s no moral or story. There’s no resolution. There’s only a double abyss: between painter and imprisoned bird; between the record he left of the bird and our experience of it, centuries later.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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Andrea’s 2025 Year in Books
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